CFA/History-Research

« Comparative Feature Analyses

General browser capabilities

In the following table:

• P = available through Primary UI (menu items, toolbar)
• S = available through Secondary UI (anywhere else)
• blank = not available
• # = see item in Notes
• The browsers listed are, in order: Firefox 2, Camino, Flock, iCab, IE7, Maxthon, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, and Shiira.

	Fx2	Cam	Flo	iCa	IE7	Max	Net	Omn	Ope	Saf	Sea	Shi
Back/Forward	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P
Home (Toolbar/Menu)	P/P	-/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/-	P/P	-/-	-/-	-/P	P/P	-/P
Most recent x pages	P	P	P	S	S	S	P	P	-	P	-	S
Recently closed x tabs	P	P	P	-	-	-	S	-	P	-	-	-
View History	P	S2	P	P	S	P	P	P	P	S2	P	P
Search	S	S	S	-	-	S	S	S	S	S	S	-
Advanced search	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	S6	-
Sort: Date + Site	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	-	-	-	-	-
Sort: Site	S	S	S	S	S	-	S	S	S	S	S	-
Sort: Date	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Sort: Most visited	S	-3	S	-	S	-	S	S	S4	-	S	-
Sort: Last visited	S	S	S	-	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	-
Clear item	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	-7
Clear selected items	-	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	S	S	S	-
Clear all items	S1	P	S1	S	S	S	S	P	S5	P	S5	P
Clear item(s) and add to privacy blocklist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Privacy settings to stop all sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	P	-	P
Privacy setting to stop specified (blocklisted) sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Privacy "Start/Stop" toggle to prevent all sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	P8	-	P8
Privacy setting to clear history on exit	S	-	S	S	-	-	S	S	-	-	-	-
Other History-related privacy settings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Taggable History	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Autotagging/categorizing of History	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Add to Bookmarks (directly from History)	S	-	S	-	S	S	S	-	-	-	S	-
Integration with an external service (sync, whatever)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Social features?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Clickstream recording	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Data mining and visualization tools	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Notes

1. Very roundabout way of doing this - Prefs > Privacy > Private Data Settings > Uncheck non-history stuff > OK > Clear Private Data Now
2. History is accessed through bookmarks manager
3. There is a "Top 10 List"
4. "Popularity" - I think this is total number of visits to a site
5. This is simply "Select All" > Delete
6. Same as regular search
7. There's a command there, but it doesn't work
8. Same as the privacy settings